Perhaps 40 per
cent of our vacancies are filled with applicants who knew one or more tenants.
It highlights particular problems in filling posts with a teaching and learning responsibility payment (TLR) and Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs), with only 14 per
cent of vacancies being filled with ease.
Not exact matches
The rising cost
of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the
vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per
cent, according to CMHC.
The Knight Frank report, suggesting
vacancy levels will lift to 24 per
cent, came in response to the mid-year Property Council
of Australia office market report.
CB Richard Ellis Research figures predict an increase in overall
vacancy to 14.9 per
cent, with the A-grade segment
of the market to increase to 15.2 per
cent.
Anthony Scott, director
of research with Barclay Street, said the first - quarter
vacancy rate in Calgary's suburban office market was 17.7 per
cent.
The Daiya deal at 3100 Production Way accounted for a reduction
of 0.2 per
cent, or 10 per
cent of the total
vacancy rate.
Trepp and his fellow panelists agreed that even with up to 1.5 million square feet
of new office space potentially delivered to market in the next three to five years, the Vancouver market would remain «in balance», peaking at no higher than 14 per
cent vacancy when the new supply arrives.
It is designed to force out -
of - province owners to contribute more to B.C. government coffers or rent out their homes in cities where rents are sky - high and
vacancy rates less than one per
cent.
Tenants make less than half the median income
of homeowners in the province and the dearth
of vacancies — about 1 per
cent in the city — means rents continue to climb.
While the reported number
of vacancies declined in the June quarter, the series has trended upwards for some time and in the June quarter was still more than 10 per
cent higher than a year earlier.
Even stronger growth has been recorded in the ABS
vacancies series, which has risen by 28 per
cent over the past year, the bulk
of this in the past two quarters.
«Rental
vacancies are at less than one per
cent in our major cities, and buying a home is out
of reach for many.
In line with this,
vacancy rates for rentals across Canada are exceptionally low, particularly in certain parts
of British Columbia where
vacancy rates have dipped to a record low
of 0.3 per
cent.
According to a survey by the Association
of Graduate Recruiters, job
vacancies in engineering have increased by 60 per
cent compared with last year's recruitment season.
Employers have reported a rise in
vacancies of 8.9 per
cent for the 2009/2010 recruitment year, and expect it to rise a further 4 per
cent in 2010/2011, suggesting the graduate job market has turned the corner.
The survey, which interviewed 97 school networks and individual schools, discovered that 52 per
cent of respondents had
vacancies in maths, 44 per
cent had
vacancies in english, and 50 per
cent in science.
The number
of secondary schools with at least one advertised
vacancy or temporarily - filled post rose from 23 per
cent in 2015, to 27 per
cent last year.
Last year, the subject recruited only 48 per
cent of the number
of teachers DfE calculated it would need to fill
vacancies in school.
In secondary schools, the highest staffing shortages were in Mathematics — with five per
cent of schools reporting at least one unfilled
vacancy at the beginning
of 2012.
According to the data, about 11 per
cent of primary principals had at least one unfilled
vacancy for a general classroom teacher at the beginning
of 2012.
Of the primary principals who took part in the survey, four per
cent reported «major» and 17 per
cent «moderate» difficulties in filling the
vacancies; for secondary principals the figures were eight per
cent and 31 per
cent respectively.
79 per
cent of schools leaders who have advertised
vacancies are facing recruitment problems, according to new research from the National Association
of Head Teachers (NAHT).
80 per
cent of respondents said they believed the situation was worse or significantly worse than 12 months ago, with 73 per
cent reporting that they have had to use supply teachers to fill
vacancies and 71 per
cent saying they have had to use non-specialists — those without a degree in the relevant subject — to teach classes.
Twenty - eight per
cent of London's secondary schools have at least one
vacancy or temporarily filled post (compared with 24 per
cent nationally) as do 18 per
cent of its primary schools (compared with eight per
cent nationally).
Schools Week has previously reported that a quarter
of primary schools with a top
vacancy were forced to readvertise for headship roles in the first three months
of this year, compared with 10 per
cent of secondary schools.
Last November, a survey by the headteachers» union, the NAHT, found that although the proportion
of heads admitting to using agencies dropped from 56 per
cent in 2015 to 44 per
cent in 2016, the average spend still worked out at # 3,221.50 per
vacancy.
The report revealed the number
of teacher
vacancies has risen from 350 (0.1 per
cent of the workforce) in 2011, to 3,210 (0.9 per
cent) in 2014.
The NAHT union's annual recruitment survey has found that 19 per
cent of leaders failed to fill one
of these
vacancies this year, up from 10 per
cent in 2016.
«There are rental
vacancy rates across the province
of less than one per
cent.»
The rising cost
of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the
vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per
cent, according to CMHC.
Apartments for rent had a
vacancy rate
of close to zero, while condominiums that are owned and not available for rent had a whopping 12.5 per
cent vacancy rate in 2014.
The UK Commission for Employment & Skills research showed that 43 per
cent of STEM
vacancies are hard to fill due to a shortage
of applicants with the required skills and experience.
The European Commission has found a worrying 42 per
cent of UK employers reported difficulties recruiting skilled IT workers — above the EU average — and predicts that there will be 900,000 unfilled technical
vacancies in Europe by 2015, with the number
of digital and technology jobs growing at a rate
of more than 100,000 a year.
No search costs — For dating, it might not matter if you spend the whole
of your twenties working your way down the list to the magic 37 per
cent, but in a real business there are time costs involved in recruiting, both the time taken away from the hiring manager for each interview, and the cost
of leaving a
vacancy open longer than needed (during which time customers are getting poorer service, sales aren't being made, overtime is being paid to overstretched staff, etc..)
Job
vacancy rates rose in each
of the last five years and in 2016 the rate stood at 1.8 per
cent.
It's been estimated that 40 per
cent of graduate
vacancies do not ask for specific degree subjects.
According to the report, Canada's office
vacancy rate reached 7.8 per
cent at the midway point
of 2011, down from 9.9 per
cent at mid-year 2010 and 8.4 per
cent at mid-year 2009.
Six
of the 12 markets display overall
vacancy rates below the national average and include: Vancouver (7.6 per
cent), Regina (1.9 per
cent), Winnipeg (6.9 per
cent), Ottawa (5.9 per
cent), Quebec City (4.4 per
cent) and Halifax (6.3 per
cent).
Two markets experienced a rise in
vacancy — Winnipeg (6.9 per
cent, +200 bps) and Lethbridge, with a marginal increase
of 50 bps to 9.7 per
cent.
Canada's suburban markets kept pace with downtown markets as the national suburban
vacancy rate tumbled 230 bps over the past 12 months to reach 9.8 per
cent at the end
of June 2011.
The
vacancy ratio in this type
of housing is 9.2 per
cent, which is higher than the usual traditional rental market.»
· And according to Precarious: Temporary Agency Work in British Columbia, the rate
of growth
of short - term positions is significantly outstripping that
of permanent ones: http://www.macleans.ca/economy/realestateeconomy/the-vacant-truth-about-rental-condos/ According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., the federal agency that insures lenders against mortgage losses while simultaneously serving as one
of the main sources
of real estate data in the country, the
vacancy rate for condo rentals is just 1.3 per
cent — about as close to zero as you can get.
New York City, arguably the most brutal place to try to find a place to rent anywhere in the world, has a rental
vacancy rate
of 3.45 per
cent.
The movement out
of rental accommodation into homeownership continued in 2004 and the average apartment
vacancy rate for major urban centres rose from 2.2 to 2.7 per
cent.
It says
vacancy rates in the province have already fallen to «critical levels»
of 2.1 per
cent across the province and 1.3 per
cent in the City
of Toronto.
In line with this,
vacancy rates for rentals across Canada are exceptionally low, particularly in certain parts
of British Columbia where
vacancy rates have dipped to a record low
of 0.3 per
cent.
Vacancy in these six notable buildings currently sits at 1.6 per
cent, which justifies why this prominent location commands some
of the highest rental rates in the city despite the impending influx
of new supply that is putting downward pressure on rents throughout the Central Business District.
There has been no notable increase in the average gross rent and
vacancy on the street remains low (5.2 per
cent) in relation to the rest
of the market (7.8 per
cent), says JLL.
The industrial
vacancy rate hit 3.9 per
cent at the end
of 2017, the lowest since 2001, with rents up 15 per
cent in Vancouver and 7.3 per
cent in Toronto from 2016, according to Cushman & Wakefield.